stories from

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

2011

LOS ANGELES - Harry Morgan never planned to be an actor, yet he spent 10 years on one of the top TV series of all time, made 50 films and appeared on Broadway. He became one of the best-known character actors in Hollywood.

CANTON, Ga. — A 20-year-old maintenance man with no known criminal past was arrested Wednesday in the beating death of a 7-year-old north Georgia girl who was abducted at the apartment complex where she lived and he worked and her body left in a trash bin.

ATLANTA -- Groups on both sides of the gun-control issue are springing into action Wednesday over a new bill that would allow nearly anyone to carry a concealed weapon without having to get a permit first.

NEW YORK - Newly unearthed private photos of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may be a letdown if you were expecting raucous party scenes like the ones in "The Social Network" movie.
The photos are tame, some even adorable.

CHICAGO — The Rod Blagojevich who once challenged a prosecutor to face him like a man, the glad-handing politician who took to celebrity TV shows to profess his innocence, was nowhere to be found Wednesday as he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Ex-Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was jailed Wednesday after new child sex abuse charges were filed against him based on the claims of new two accusers, one of whom says he screamed in vain for help while Sandusky attacked him in a basement bedroom.

NEW DELHI - Less than two weeks after India announced it would let foreign companies such as Wal-Mart enter its fast-growing but often inefficient retail market, the government said Wednesday it was bowing to mounting opposition and suspending the move.

SOUTH FULTON, Tenn. - A Tennessee couple has lost everything after their home burned to the ground as firefighters watched and did nothing.
Vicky Bell told WPSD-TV that she called 911 when her mobile home in Obion County caught fire.

"Remember Pearl Harbor - Keep America Alert" is the motto of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. Seventy years have passed since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that marked the United States' entry into World War II.

Politically, and realistically, they didn't really have a choice. However, that doesn't mean the Georgia General Assembly committee that decided Monday to freeze a routine cost-of-living adjustment in the $17,341.

The top two teams in the country dominated the 2011 Southeastern Conference Football Individual Awards announced Wednesday with No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama combining for five of the seven honors as determined by the conference's coaches.

After several years of being lumped in with some of the most god-awful, overwrought piano pop the past decade had to offer, the boys in Modern Skirts struck out to find a voice more true to themselves.